Six days ago, Microsoft posted on their blog an update concerning a security flaw found in all versions of the company’s Internet Explorer web browser, which has not yet been fixed and has also spread since last week, affecting at least 2 million computers worldwide.

Unlike other security weaknesses, this one does not ask computer users to click on various links or download different software, working its way into PCs simply if an Internet surfer opens an infected web page.

Currently, the Internet Explorer web browser is used by 69 percent of surfers, Microsoft having announced that most of the affected by the flaw computers were in China, with the security weakness having been used to steal game passwords.

Nevertheless, the main fear now is that if fixing the flaw should be even further delayed, the latter might come to give rise to attacks resulting in theft of personal information, including administrative computer passwords and financial data.

For the time being, there is no patch for the weakness, although Microsoft has offered IE users some guidelines to steer clear of having their computers infected.

Most of these solutions entail disabling the oledb32.dll file, while web surfers are also advised to set the Internet and local intranet security zones to „high” and configure IE to prompt before running Active Scripting.

Moreover, even the company has stated that as a radical solution, but also as the best one to prevent computers from coming to be affected by the security flaw, Internet surfers should stop using the IE web browser.